America's Infrastructure Really Is Crumbling

In 2008, the collapse of the I35W Mississippi River Bridge during Minneapolis rush hour traffic cost 13 lives and injured 145. It brought the condition of the nation's infrastructure, an unsexy topic, to the media spotlight.

A failing infrastructure cannot support the nation's economy indefinitely.

Yet while there has been plenty of attention paid to infrastructure, the Obama administration has given it short shrift, instead pouring money into other, short-term things.

The American Society of Civil Engineers releases a report card of the nation's infrastructure every four years. Their most recent, released in 2009, reveals 15 weak points that need a mind-boggling $2.2 trillion over the next five years to be fixed.